'This is probably the best exploration of the culture of modern Greece I have encountered in twenty years. Calotychos works with verve and skill in several fields. Although he professes to be a literary historian and critic, he clearly also has the analytic skills of an anthropologist working within a powerfully interdisciplinary cultural studies tradition. His theory is eclectic but unpretentious, his range deep and wide and his writing skills attractively uncluttered.' (MICHAEL HERZFELD, Harvard University).